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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March
19, 1922 |
Tour
of Flanders |
Leon
Devos (Bel) |
253 km |
| March
28, 1922 |
Milan-San
Remo |
Giovanni
Brunero |
286.5 km |
| April
9, 1922 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Louis
Mottiat (Bel) |
218 km |
| April
16, 1922 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Albert
Delonghe (Bel) |
263 km |
| May
24-Jun 11, 1922 |
Giro
d'Italia |
Giovanni
Brunero (Ita) |
10 Stages,
3,093 km |
| Jun
25-Jul 23, 1922 |
Tour
de France |
Firmin
Lambot (Bel) |
15 Stages,
5,373 km |
| November
5, 1922 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Constante
Girardengo (Ita) |
Milan-Monza,
246km |
- Great
Britain - Flu epidemic hit Britain claiming 804 victims.
- Mussolini - 1922, Benito Mussolini marched on Rome
and started to take control of Italy. In October, Mussolini
established
his Fascist regime.
- U.S.S.R. - The creation of the communist
state of the U.S.S.R. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who was known
as Lenin, suffered
a series of stroke and was replaced by Josif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili,
who was known as Josef Stalin, as General Secretary of
the Communist Party in Russia. The December end of the Russian
Revolution established the Soviet Union.
- Great
Britain - November 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
began radio service in the United Kingdom.
Notable
Deaths-
Alexander
Graham Bell, 1847-1922, a creative genius, Bell's many inventions
included the telephone
and telegraph, a selenium cell, the photophone, the phonograph, five variations
of aerial vehicles, and the hydroplane. In 1888, he
also founded
the National Geographic Society.
1921
1923
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